EPJ ST Special Issue: A Passion for Science, a Heart for People - A Special Issue in Memoriam of Danuta Makowiec

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Published on 16 April 2025

Guest Editors: Henryk Fukś, Jürgen Kurths, Ryszard Kutner, Alberto Porta, Aneta Stefanovska, Zbigniew R. Struzik

We dedicate this Special Issue of the EPJ ST to our colleague Danuta Makowiec, who passed away last year after a long, courageous fight with a brutal illness. A physicist by training, Danuta became a driving force behind complex systems science in Poland and internationally -- specifically in applications of physics methods to complexity of various origins and aiming at numerous applications, where she prioritised medical domains. Her research covered disciplines as diverse as cellular automata, complex networks, econophysics, sociophysics and in particular cardiophysics, just to mention those areas of science where she was most active.

She looked across disciplines and across borders, and it is this we now purposefully intend to represent and integrate as a team of Guest Editors from different countries with distinct areas of expertise. Indeed, she was a champion of cross-disciplinary science, driven by her perception that multiplicity of insights is how science can progress most, and best help people in need. Her work on cardiophysics -- the applications of methods of physics in cardiac physiology and pathology of the human heart -- particularly reflected her compassion for people.

Contributors are encouraged to submit their Original Papers of both short and standard length, possibly but not necessarily building on Danuta's work and publications reflected in the topics listed below. Most welcome as a part of this Special Issue will be Reviews, including Mini-reviews and Tutorial Reviews, and in particular submissions reviewing Danuta's works on any specific topic or their range:

i) regulatory physiology, complexity and coupling analysis and modelling in health, ageing and disease, in particular of the:

• cardiovascular system & respiratory system.

ii) complex systems, in particular within:

• econophysics: market & financial analysis and modelling;
• cardiophysics: heart rate complexity analysis and modelling & excitatory media modelling;
• evolutionary & population models;
• sociophysics: traffic models, voting models & social interaction networks;
• automata - cellular, hybrid, time & network cellular models;
• dynamical systems & emergent phenomena.

iii) computational physics, in particular entailing:

• modelling and simulation: statistical mechanics models of complexity;
• advanced methodologies: such as wavelet analysis, multifractal analysis, network analysis and modelling, entropic measures, information theory based causality measures & machine learning.

As we, the Editors of this Special Issue, all remember, Danuta was passionate about science. Full of enthusiasm and dedication to exploring new paths of research, she was always eager to learn and try out new ideas. For this reason, the list of topics provided should only serve as an indication and suggestion of what kind of contributions we are expecting, while stressing that any related or novel approaches and ideas are most welcome and encouraged.

Articles should be submitted to the Editorial Office of EPJ ST via the submission system, and should be clearly identified as intended for the topical issue “A Passion for Science, a Heart for People - A Special Issue in Memoriam of Danuta Makowiec”.

More detailed author information including paper types can be found in the Submission Guidelines. For the preparation of the manuscripts a special latex template (preferably single-column layout) is available here.

Guest Editors:

Henryk Fukś, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada.
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Jürgen Kurths, Department of Physics, Humboldt University of Berlin, Newtonstraße 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
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Ryszard Kutner, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteur Str. 5, PL-02093 Warsaw, Poland.
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Alberto Porta, Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Milan 20133, Italy.
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Aneta Stefanovska, Department of Physics, Lancaster University, LA1 4YB Lancaster, United Kingdom.
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Zbigniew R. Struzik (Lead guest editor), Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, 113-0033 Tokyo, Japan.
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